It's true that those looking inward who refer to themselves as "we all" might have moved elsewhere. Me, I've still got all my users on OpenOffice. I'm willing to bet I made the right decision... (I already bet my reputation at work on it)
Only time will tell whether or not Apache Open Office will thrive. The one thing Open Office has going for it is brand recognition by the average user. It's much easier to just give them Open Office than to explain that LibreOffice is a derivative and the reason it forked.
Speaking of names, is it actually "Apache OpenOffice" now? That would be an improvement over calling an office suite by the name of its website, "OpenOffice.org".
I mean, did anybody ever call it "Open Office dot org"? Judging by the comments in this thread, no.
Same for Postgres / PostgreSQL ("post greh ess queue elle").
The official name of the new ASF project (and the software it ships) is Apache OpenOffice. While the ASF now legally owns the trademarks associated with OpenOffice.org, going forward we'll be using Apache OpenOffice as our trademark. While normally we require Apache projects to live at an *.apache.org domain name, given the broad (non-technical) end-user base of AOO they will still provide a user-based homepage at openoffice.org. Developers should probably go to openoffice.apache.org for technical info.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I was an Apache OpenOffice podling mentor
But PostgresQL stands for "post-Ingres Query Language" (or possibly "post-Ingres Simple Query Language"), and the "e" in Ingres (the painter) is an unstressed schwa, like the "e" in "libre". Definitely not an "eh". And the "s" in "Ingres" is mute. So shouldn't it be "POST-gruh-queue-elle" or "POST-gress-queue-elle" rather than "post-greh-ess-queue-elle"?
who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
we all moved to LibreOffice
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It's true that those looking inward who refer to themselves as "we all" might have moved elsewhere. Me, I've still got all my users on OpenOffice. I'm willing to bet I made the right decision... (I already bet my reputation at work on it)
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OpenOffice dot org? (Score:5, Interesting)
Speaking of names, is it actually "Apache OpenOffice" now? That would be an improvement over calling an office suite by the name of its website, "OpenOffice.org".
I mean, did anybody ever call it "Open Office dot org"? Judging by the comments in this thread, no.
Same for Postgres / PostgreSQL ("post greh ess queue elle").
Re:OpenOffice dot org - Apache OpenOffice (Score:5, Informative)
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But PostgresQL stands for "post-Ingres Query Language" (or possibly "post-Ingres Simple Query Language"), and the "e" in Ingres (the painter) is an unstressed schwa, like the "e" in "libre". Definitely not an "eh". And the "s" in "Ingres" is mute. So shouldn't it be "POST-gruh-queue-elle" or "POST-gress-queue-elle" rather than "post-greh-ess-queue-elle"?
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I always just read it as a portmanteau of "Postgres" and "SQL": "Post-gress-queue-elle".